Design and Technology Teacher
The Cooper School, Bicester, Oxfordshire, OX26 4RS5 days remaining to apply
Closing date
12 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
5 June 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Design Technology
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,650.00 - £49,084.00 Annually (FTE)
Design and Technology Teacher job summary
We’re looking for a passionate and innovative Design and Technology Teacher, ideally with a specialism in Food, to join our dynamic team.
What You’ll Do:
- Deliver engaging, high-quality lessons tailored to all learners.
- Plan, assess, and adapt teaching to support student progress.
- Prepare students for qualifications and external exams.
- Promote personal development, wellbeing, and careers awareness.
- Support positive behaviour and act as a form tutor.
What We’re Looking For:
- A qualified, reflective teacher with a passion for D&T, ideally with a Food specialism (although not essential)
- A team player committed to safeguarding and inclusion.
- Someone eager to grow through CPD and contribute to school life.
- Be part of a supportive and forward-thinking team.
- Access to high-quality CPD and leadership development opportunities.
- A school culture that values innovation, collaboration, and wellbeing.
- Opportunities to make a real impact on students’ lives and futures
Safeguarding commitment
The Cooper School and the Acer Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism; all staff must ensure that the highest priority is given to following the guidance and regulations to safeguard children and young people. The successful candidate will be required to undergo an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and obtain any other statutorily required clearance. Employment will also be conditional on the receipt of at least two acceptable references (one from current/last employer) and evidence of the formal qualifications required for the role.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About The Cooper School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1272 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Cooper School website
At The Cooper School, we pride ourselves on being forward thinking in terms of curriculum decisions which support our students; focused on improving learning through the use of new technologies and determined to continuously refine our approaches to teaching and learning. Investing in the Media Suite reflects a small part of our approach to making learning engaging, relevant and active for our students.
Joining us as a member of staff at The Cooper School means being able to see the big picture for the students here. It means that whilst we always strive for academic excellence, we also place great value upon students becoming adaptable, resourceful and enquiring. These are the sort of skills that will enable them to become effective citizens, just as much as their academic results will. As such, we encourage independent learning, enrichment initiatives and House-based teamwork and co-operation.
Working here is an opportunity to flourish as a professional. We ‘grow our own’ leaders. Many new staff have taken on additional responsibilities which is a mark of their quality and commitment to making progress in their own careers as well as their desire to become part of a successful and positive organisation.
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